Forums Feature Suggestions if ($1 ischar) { echo Yes it is! }

Hello,

I wonder if this could be possible to be added into the mIRC

e.g:

ON *:TEXT:*:?: { if ($1- ischar) { echo -s WARNING: The $nick just used the $v1 character's private } }

Thanks, ^WeSt

Could you please elaborate?

Do you mean if ($len($1-) == 1) { ?
If so, probably won't be added, you're too lazy seriously ~

Yeah, please elaborate on what you mean. ischar to mean seems like you're wanting to know that it's a character (i.e. not a number of symbol -- isalplha handles that). But what you put as the warning doesn't seem to make sense -- "character's private"?

Also, keep in mind that $v1 is the result of the check. An is___ check will return $true or $false, which I doubt is what you're expecting in your example.

If you meant it's a single character,then $len() == 1 is just as easy as mentioned. If you mean something else entirely, please explain. A sample input and output for the example script would help us to understand what you mean.

So wrong, $v1 return the first part of the condition.

You're right. I always use it with X == Y format and when I actually think of that, I see my error. I wasn't thinking of is___ correctly (that "is" is basically the == and ___ is the second part of the condition). I was incorrectly thinking of it as all the first part of the condition. Oops.

Shows how much I use those is___ checks while also displaying the result using $v1... i.e. never.

if you actually mean to test $len($1) == 1 like the others are assuming, that should not be considered the behaviour of "ischar" imo.

The behaviour of the is* text matchers (isalpha, isalnum) don't test single characters, so if "ischar" would be misleading. "ischar" looks like you're asking the question: is $1 a set of characters? ..similar to "isalpha" (is $1 a set of alpha chars).

If this is really about testing a single char, you'd want if ($1 issinglechar), but that's just getting superfluous. Just use the len check if that's what you want.

If you mean something else, you need to *explain*. You can't expect people to understand you from a single line of an ambiguous example.

I mean man when the $1- has any character's in then echo that the $1- has characters the $v1 was an silly example to saw you what i mean

e.g:

if ($1- ischar) { echo Yes the $1- is a char! }

A simple solution can be this:

if ($0) echo $1-

or, if $1- can be $null: (if alias is called like this: $test(,,) )

if ($1- != $null) echo $1-

lol? that has not sence with that i want to tell you.

You're still not making any sense. Give us examples!

As mentioned, give an example INPUT and OUTPUT rather than just the script as we obviously aren't understanding what you want. If all you're looking for is whether or not it's letters, that's what isalpha is for. If you want to know if there is data, use if ($1-) { } or just if ($1) { } . But without an actual example of input and what you expect the output to be, no one seems to know what you want.

You want to test if "$1" has "characters" in it? As in, if $1 exists?

if ($1 != $null) { echo YES IT IS. }

OK, lets be more specific


ON *:TEXT:*:?: {
; THE FIRST IF IS THE USUAL EXAMPLE
if ($1 == $chr(35)) { echo Yes the $1 is a character }
; THE SECOND IF IS THAT THAT I WANT TO GIVE YOU EXAMPLE
if ($1 ischar) { echo Yes the $1 is a character }
}

NOTE: I want to tell you that the ischar to return if there are any $chr(*) inside an IF, as there exist the if ($1 isnum) { echo Yes it is an number }, It's easy and you can understand what i mean, ok my english is little poor but it is an good idea who those who has understand!

You need to tell us what you mean when you say "character".

Do you mean:
letters?
numbers?
punctuation?
control codes? (0-31)
all basic ascii (32-127)?
all extended ascii (128-255)?
all ascii (32-255)?
all unicode characters?

-genius_at_work

And how, realistically, is this different from as suggested (with a slight alteration to the wording in the echo) by argv0 in the post located here
ok, you'll have to scroll down, as referencing the reply directly only brings you to the top of the original topic

All the $chr(*) return character's

I had never give this example just look the other new that i gave!

He was giving YOU an example with that. You still have not given a sample INPUT and OUTPUT (something I've requested multiple times). If you want to know if it is a single value, use:

if ($len($1) == 1) {}

That will tell you it's a single character. If you want only letters, use isalpha. If you want anything except numbers, use !isnum. If you want anything and any length, use:

if ($1 != $null) {}

A $chr() is any ascii character (including numbers). The only thing you'd filter out that way would be unicode. Is that what you're trying to do? Check if it's unicode? Really, you have to explain what you're looking for. If no one here knows what you are requesting, then it's a pretty good bet that you aren't explaining it well.

Give input and output examples (not more script examples).

Such as:


This is the kind of example we need to know what you're asking for. Change it to show the right outputs and, if necessary, add or remove some of the examples in there.

westor:

ANY text is a $chr(*), therefore ANYTHING ischar, therefore:

if ($1 != $null) is what you want.